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Ford Motor Company announced Wednesday that Raj Nair, executive vice president and president of Ford North America and a driving force behind the return of the Ford GT, is leaving the company effective immediately. The decision follows a recent internal investigation into reports of inappropriate behavior that determined certain behavior was "inconsistent with the company's code of conduct," Ford...

C.J. Wilson's arc from Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher to owner of the CJ Wilson Racing team to becoming an entrant in IMSA's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is complete. The veteran Continental Tire Series squad will make its debut in IMSA's top category next month using an Acura NSX GT3 at the 12 Hours of Sebring, where Marc Miller and Till Bechtolscheimer will lead the driving duties...

The use of Balance of Performance methods to equalize different sports car models is rarely spoken of in warm and friendly terms. It made tracing the roots of BoP, which has become a normal part of life in sprint and endurance competition, a topic worth exploring with renowned race engineer Jeff Braun. Braun, whose experience dates back to the glory days of IMSA's GTP series, and RACER's Marshall...

A year ago at this time, Fred Poordad was in the early stages of recovery after he was injured in a crash at the Bathurst 12-hour race in Australia. "I ran a Nissan GT-R at Bathurst in the 12-hour last year, and really didn't have much time to get into the car before the event," Poordad recalled on Tuesday at Sebring International Raceway, where he was testing the No.20 Wright Motorsports Porsche...

It's time for another ambient audio feature on the Marshall Pruett Podcast with Sounds of the 2018 Rolex 24 At Daytona. The three classes in IMSA's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship make for some of the sweetest delights to the ear, and with more than an hour of Acuras, Audis, BMWs, Corvettes, Ferraris, Fords, Lamborghinis, Mazdas, Mercedes-AMGs, Nissans, and Porsches spread across GTs and Proto...

The time deficit in qualifying for the Rolex 24 At Daytona told the story of how far out of the Balance of Performance window BMW's brand-new M8 GTE model was living. The pair of BMW Team RLL entries, a distant eighth and ninth in a GT Le Mans class with only nine cars, were more than 1.1 seconds adrift from the pole-winning Corvette. Any questions of sandbagging were answered in the race when th...

Brent O'Neill's PC championship-winning team will contest the remainder of IMSA's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with its ORECA 07-Gibson entry in the Prototype class. Coming off an impressive fourth-place qualifying performance with the No.38 ORECA at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, plans for the Florida-based team were unclear beyond the opening rounds. Thanks to a new investment from a sponsor th...

United Autosports will retain Paul Di Resta for two more rounds with its IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship campaign. The ex-Formula 1 driver former part of UA's impressive driver rotation in January at the Rolex 24 At Daytona, and has been tabbed as the third member of the team's Ligier JS P217 Prototype effort for Bruno Senna and Phil Hanson at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring and later...

IMSA's Feb. 20-23 test at Sebring International Raceway will feature 14 entries in Prototype, eight cars in GT Le Mans, and 13 in GT Daytona. Full test entry list Of the teams in Prototype, 13 are full-season WeatherTech SportsCar Championship regulars; only the British-American United Autosports Ligier JS P217-Gibson entry is a part-time effort with IMSA's North American Endurance Cup program. I...

IMSA has appointed veteran race officials Todd Snyder and John Maesky to new race director roles for IMSA-sanctioned single-make and challenge series. Maesky, a fixture in IMSA race control over the past several seasons, takes on new responsibilities as race director for both the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA by Yokohama and the Ultra 94 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada by Yokohama for the 2018 s...

WatchÂ Ford development drivers Ty Majeski, Chase Briscoe, Cole Custer and Austin Cindric get set to compete in IMSA's Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge on the road course at Daytona International Speedway.

IMSA says it is unable to acccommodate the request by FIA World Endurance Championship CEO Gerard Neveu to move its race date for Petit Le Mans, following the WEC's shift of its Fuji round onto the same weekend as the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's season-finale. The Fuji race was moved forward a week from its original date to avoid a conflict with the U.S. Formula 1 Grand Prix at Austin's ...

Marshall Pruett and DailySportsCar.com editor Graham Goodwin are back for the second episode of their new untitled sports car racing show on the Marshall Pruett Podcast. On this week's docket, MP & GG & discuss the Asian Le Mans Series season finale and Bathurst 12 Hours, the upcoming announcement of ELMS, WEC and Le Mans entries, the expected WEC Fuji date change, ORECA's new R13 LMP1 car for Re...

IMSA fan Michael Goodwin has completed his latest charity sign project after securing autographs from the entire field of drivers at last week's Rolex 24 At Daytona. The generous Florida-based contractor, whose popular self-made sports car signs have been donated as fundraising items for Rett Syndrome via Tequila Patron ESM driver Ryan Dalziel and more recently for the Wilson Children's Fund, whi...

The decision by IMSA's technical department to award a stop-plus-five-minute penalty to the class-leading Land Motorsport Audi R8 LMS GT3 will be remembered as one of the bolder calls made at the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Having spent a fair amount of time speaking with the series, team and manufacturer since the ruling was made, the complexities involved are remarkable. As much as I loathe IMSA's use...